Bowls' Greed May Lead To Their Downfall

[Chin Diesel]

A good look at one of the reason's why the current BCS is screwed and a playoff is coming.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf-...mined-as-the-ncaa-mulls-a-playoff-system.html

And yes, I'm aware that the article was written by a troll.

Excerpted from the beginning of the article:





Officially the document carries the label "2012 BCS Complimentary Tickets," but for LSU it looks more like the StubHub order from hell, nothing complimentary about it.
Two tickets for the school president to the BCS title game? That's $700. Four for the chancellor? That's $1,400. Les Miles' family? Three-fifty a pop. On and on it goes.

To play the BCS halftime show, the LSU band had to fork over $182,830 for tickets. (AP)One of the dirty secrets of many bowl games is that almost nothing is cheap. The industry, in this case represented by Sugar Bowl Inc., long ago learned how to squeeze every last penny out of college football. That includes charging even the stars of the show exorbitant prices for tickets.
How about a couple of free ones for the players to give to their parents or girlfriends or high school coaches? Please. The Sugar Bowl instead charged LSU $350 a seat, full price, for every last player request. Total cost: $254,800 on the players alone.
Oh, and the Tiger Marching Band, the one that is contractually obligated to attend bowl week and provide halftime entertainment? With bowls, not even the band gets in free. LSU had to buy tickets for every clarinetist, flutist, tuba player and majorette. Some of the seats, according to the Baton Rouge Advocate, just held the tuba.
That added up to 529 tickets, almost all full price. The bill for the student band to sit was $182,830.
That's $182,830 to get into a venue and give a free show to all the other paying customers.
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All in all, the "2012 BCS Complimentary Tickets" document obtained by Yahoo! Sports detailed most of what would wind up being a $526,924 bill LSU owed the Sugar Bowl just for tickets.

 

[jbdphi]

Just nauseating to read. Say what you will about Wetzel but the guy has done some impressive investigative pieces to his credit.

 

[uconnfan68]

Just nauseating to read. Say what you will about Wetzel but the guy has done some impressive investigative pieces to his credit.

Should have stopped with "say what you will about Wetzel". We know the rest.

 

[junglehusky]

While financial numbers from this year aren't publicly available, the last time the Sugar Bowl "double hosted" – it's namesake game and the BCS title game – it did $34.1 million in revenue and turned an $11.6 million profit. Since the game enjoys a 501 (c) (3) non-profit status, that was all tax free.

Non-profit my @$$!!!

&^#@$*^%!!!

 

[Johnny Mac]

Unfortunately Chin, while it's nauseating to read of the bowls arrogance and CEO country club memberships, blowing up the bowls will not result in lower prices for the fans, students or teams. Nor will it result in lost memberships to Bushwood CC.